Re: [CentOS] nmbd dead but pid file exists

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:04 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:

I'm having a lot of problems with nmbd quitting while I'm working. 'service smb status' shows samba running, but 'nmbd dead but pid file exists'. Log files show lines like

nmbd/nmbd.c:reload_interfaces(229) reload_interfaces: No subnets to listen to. Shutting down...

Googling hasn't come up with anything helpful. Has anyone any idea what is happening and what I can do about it?

---- in /etc/samba/smb.conf

what do you have for settings?

bind interfaces only = ? hosts allow = ? wins support = ? wins server = ?

(note the last 2 are mutually exclusive and both should not be set)

Craig